There was a time when being skinny or reed thin was in. Not anymore, and certainly not for the shapely huggable Indian body, where women are known to embrace bigger thighs and wider hips. And if that was not all, it is now the era of the bigger booty- the buttocks too. However, in India, we are yet to have an influx or a wave of designers catering to the liberating era of the big buttocks, and they have to realise that stick thin clothing is not the ‘one-size-fits-all’ saga anymore. Embrace your curves and flaunt the booty you’ve been born with, and with pride. Here are a couple of tips and ways to ensure that you cover up and look sensual, flaunting that fabulous booty. Please read on!

Invest in high waist bottoms

This could be skirts, pants, shorts, skorts, lehenga skirts, Rajasthani skirts or more; you need them high waisted if the buttocks you have are big. What you actually need is a pair or a bottom ensemble that is high waisted, which accentuates the buttock formation. It would take time to find such ensembles, which means you have to get them customised. What you could tell your tailor is to have the ensemble for the bottom to be hemmed at the waist. This would be a tailored crisp effect that comes through, customised for you, and to accentuate an hour glass figure too.

Vertical lines and monotone hues

With big buttocks comes big responsibilities of creating illusions. What you need to do here is to fake the height to look lean, slim and tall. This is why single blocks of color make you look taller when worn in monotone hues and vertical lines. For example, if you wear cropped blouses with high waist pants, in the same color, without obvious horizontal lines in between, it would make you look tall. Stick to vertical lines for the lower and if you aren’t vertically blessed; stick with the same for the top too to create symmetry and height.

One color mostly

The ideal way to dress petite plus sized beauties with big buttocks would be the one-color idea, which would have a minimal contrast usually at the neck. This allows the eyes to be distracted from the monotone feel, and the onlooker gazes at the neck, more than the lower half of your body. The one color saga in clothing also makes the lower half look slim and nice. Too much embroidery or embellishments around the buttocks would make the area look big and untidy.

Wear jackets

To create more distractions on the body, or to remove gaze from the big buttocks, jackets can help provide contrast over a monotone blouse and lowers. You could also wear pants, a top and a cropped jacket in the same hues to create an illusion of length; remember; the jackets need to be crisply cut and shaped, well-tailored and pressed, or else the look comes as frumpy and not pleasing to the eyes.

Invest in bodycons

Skirts and dresses from bodycon can shape the body well, the lower half especially. If you have an itty bitty waistline, they look very fine on you and bring the right proportions to the body for flaunting sake. Kim Kardashian seems to be a fan of the bodycon dresses and skirts, and she rocks in them like a fabulous queen. Bodycon dresses accentuate the waistline, the bust line and the hour glass shape of the body, removing total gaze from the lower half which is heavy.

Halter dresses to the rescue

Indian or western or indo-fusion, to hide the big buttocks you can invest in a couple of halter dresses, A Lines too; which makes for a classy and a very elegant look! Petite women such as Alia Bhatt, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and even Celina Jaitley have worn plenty of halter dresses and skirts that cinch at the waist and open at the bottom, allowing them to flaunt a lovely figure. The style comes about as very seductive, and the focus here would be on the waist; not the buttocks or the hips. This is a secret that helps the figure shape up and fall into place.

Buy a couple of wrap dresses

There is a reason why Bollywood actors such as Vidya Balan and yesteryear divas such as Mumtaz wore many wrap dresses (but we shall thank Diane von Furstenberg-inventor of the wrap dress here) – it helps create an iconic look and camouflages the heavy lower half of the body too. The wrap dress it seems magically sucks away the bulk and heavyweight and presents to the eyes a smooth flowing, shapely hour glass figure so desired. It works on all body types though, but girls with big thighs and hips find it helpful to wear-accentuates tiny waistlines while smoothening out the buttock shape.

Avoid boxy ensembles

Big thigh and big hip or big buttock girls should avoid boxy outfits like the plague. They might look pretty haute and chic on the red carpet, but when big booty girls wear them, it turns into a disaster. With curves on your body, especially around the waist, the boxy ensemble makes you look more like a box than an hour glass mermaid is that what you want? Why would you want to hide your gorgeous curves wearing boxy ensembles? If you do want something simple and nice to wear, an A-line dress is the best bet to bring back the elegant touch and chic appearance; not a boxy ensemble.

So here were a couple of tips which we thought of sharing with you, to make the body bestow itself with an hour glass hue. We hope you find these tips handy, and remember to celebrate your curves, not hide them, when dressing up this festival season. Do read more about what you should wear and how to wear your ensembles from eminent fashion gurus around, which would give you an idea on how to shape up in the clothes you wear! Enjoy the dolling up moments!